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So I just bought a cameo 3 that will be here today. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions. Until then, I started watching some videos and saw a trend that most reviewers preferred the cricut. Is one better than the other? It seems the cricut cuts finer detail. Should I return the cameo for the cricut or will the cameo serve me?
What am I missing on buying photoshop. You can't just buy the damn thing outright? Monthly, yearly, wtf? Please link a photoshop newb to what I need to buy for Mac OS.
Thanks guys. I had already did the month to month because I wasn't sure of how much I'd use it. I got plain old photoshop, should have it got illustrator. Looking online it appears that's where all the tracing tools are?.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:I'm so glad I re-read this, I had tried using DWG and DXF before but each time I used the trace function of the Cameo, however when using DXF at least, you DO NOT need to use TRACE. Simply make sure your scale is correct and send to the cut function on the Cameo.
I'm not sure why I thought to try this but I did it over the weekend and what result! So I wanted to mention it here again to make sure you use the DXF file type and ignore the trace function of the Cameo. Check out these results, I used a standard size Exacto blade to illustrate scale, these are from the apron. I will say to generate a DXF I had to used PS to do my art touch-up, then used Illustrator to open and "clean" the image and then used the EXPORT function of AI to generate the DXF, then opened the DXF in Cameo and follow the order of operations listed above and in the post by the OP. Hope this helps.
Those are great and exactly what I was working on when I posted here about the software. I have a hires scan and still couldn't get a clean trace in cameo. That's why I looked into adobe. There's a huge learning curve for a newb. Even with YouTube tutorials I finally quit trying illustrator for the weekend.
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